Taking the mickey

Some people will sue at the drop of a hat over injury or insult, real or imagined. Sometimes though it's very much self inflicted when it comes to facing mockery.

Daily Mail.

Muslim PC sues after workmates 'laughed at his beard'
A Muslim police officer claims he was forced out of his job by colleagues who made fun of his beard and called him a 'f***ing Paki'.
PC Javid Iqbal, 38, said white officers openly discussed in front of him how they were ' better' than their ethnic-minority colleagues.
The married father of two also claims officers pulled faces at each other if told they had to go out on patrol with him and forced him to walk home from a job instead of picking him up.

Mr Iqbal, who was born and raised in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, told the Daily Mail: 'My beard is an important part of my identity which helps other Muslims relate to me.

Now I don't know about the truth of the other allegations, but if you're going to go about looking like this at most places of work then you deserve everything you get.

You should see his wife's beard.

I'm sorry Mr Iqbal, but really, religious reasons or not, with that beard you look like a bit of a tit and whilst it may have been cruel, you're the one who chose to grow the beard and stand out from the rest of your colleagues. People will often make fun of anyone who chooses to be different, most shrug it off as a bit of fun, but not so much when it comes down to the "religion of the perpetually offended"
Still I'm sure you'll get the money, which I figure in the end is far more important to you than simply getting on with the job.